10. On 22 April 1898 France had obtained from China the lease of Guangzhouwan (Kwangchouwan),
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onl ninety-odd miles from Hong Kong, for 99 years. Taking this agreement as something of a model, the Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong, (also known as the Convention of Peking), 9 June 1898, provided for the lease to Britain, for a period of 99 years, the area of land called the New Territories This new acquisition formed a rough、rectangle extending from a line joining Deep Bay and Mirs Bay in the north, to Lamma Island in the south, and added some 365 square miles to the area of the Colony. The Convention stipulated that the exact land boundary in the north should be fixed after proper surveys had been made by officials appointed by the two governments. The final delimitation of thi boundary was concluded on 14 March 1899 by Huang Zuntxin (Huang Tsunghsin), appointed representative of the Viceroy at Guangzhou (Canton), and J H S Lockhart, a Colonial Secretary and Registrar-General of Hong Kong. Theirs is the boundary still accepted today.
11. In the face of a certain amount of opposition from Chinese resident in the New Territories,
British occupation of the area was delayed until the spring of 1899. During the time between the signing of the Convention and occupation, the question of the administration of the leased territory had also to be decided. There was some misunderstanding by the
Chinese officials over the administration of the leased area, with the result that the Viceroy at Guangzhou, on his own authority, issued regulations regarding the New Territories under the mistaken idea that Chinese authority would still be maintained
there. Although British officials had considered a
separate administration for the New Territories, it
was decided that the area should be joined to the Colony for administrative purposes. An Order In Council of 20 October 1898 (Annex E) made clear the
administrative relationship between the leased
territory and the ceded:-
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